#41603 [Com]: foreach not manipulating last element when passed by reference

ID: 41603 Comment by: judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com Reported By: david at terrainferno dot net Status: Open Bug Type: Arrays related Operating System: Windows XP PHP Version: 5.2.3 New Comment: This is the expected beahviuor, this issue has been reported counteless of time, and explained to death. for an explanation see comment by gardan at gmx dot de here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29992 I wonder why does not raise an E_NOTICE "shooting yourself in the foot with references" :-) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-06-05 22:12:56] david at terrainferno dot net Description: ------------ This was reported in 2006 in the foreach user comment http://uk.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php#60806, but using php5 using references in a foreach loop, manipulating the last element in an array seems to have no effect, the reference is referred to as $v. Reproduce code: --------------- // fails to work as expected $ar = array(1,2,3,4); foreach ($ar as &$v){ $v *= 2; } foreach($ar as $v){ echo $v . '<br>'; } // works correctly $ar = array(1,2,3,4); foreach ($ar as &$o){ $o *= 2; } foreach($ar as $o){ echo $o . '<br>'; } Expected result: ---------------- 2 4 6 8 Actual result: -------------- 2 4 6 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41603&edit=1